lifestyle

or life style, life-style

[ lahyf-stahyl ]
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noun
  1. the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.

adjective
  1. pertaining to or catering to a certain lifestyle: unhealthy lifestyle choices; lifestyle advertising; a luxury lifestyle hotel.

  2. (of a drug) used to treat a medical condition that is not life-threatening or painful: lifestyle drugs for baldness.

Origin of lifestyle

1
First recorded in 1925–30; life + style

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How to use lifestyle in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for lifestyle

lifestyle

/ (ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl) /


noun
  1. a set of attitudes, habits, or possessions associated with a particular person or group

  2. such attitudes, etc, regarded as fashionable or desirable

  1. NZ

    • a luxurious semirural manner of living

    • (as modifier): a lifestyle property

adjective
  1. suggestive of a fashionable or desirable lifestyle: a lifestyle café

  2. (of a drug) designed to treat problems, such as impotence or excess weight, which affect a person's quality of life rather than his or her health

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